In the past few years, the town of Leicester has been a modest city from central Britain with a second division football team, until things started to change. Their football team no longer can be classified as a mid table mediocre team but as a Premiere League winner. Last season Leicester’s “Foxes” won the tournament going against all predictions, which led to unimaginable bets taking place.

For instance, a Hampshire man placed a five-pound bet for Leicester after watching the first match against Sunderland. When the 2015 Premiere League finished, he ended up with 7500£ in his pocket due to his determination. The biggest bet was of 75£ when the odds were 1500/1 he won more than 110.000£. As a result of the odds the betting industry lost more than 20 million.

Expert of the industry like Jessica Bridge from Ladbrokes (British betting company) stated: ”We’ve been in this game for 130 years and we’ve never seen anything like this, it’s a story for the romantics and whilst it’s going to cost us a few quid, we have to thank Claudio Ranieri and his team for upsetting the odds week in, week out over the last nine months”.

Leicester city went against all predictions proving that the impossible can happen. This demonstrates that a low-table team can always surprise all of us.

Lluis Verdaguer